Beyond the Surface

Displacement

Gainsborough Works

Looking for Venus

No PLace Like Home

'Class 33'

Precious Metal Underground

Residual Waste

Walks Interrupted VI

Dust, Longton Town Hall
Site sensitive interpretation

Walks Interrupted V

Dust, Wedgwood Institute
Site sensitive development of Walks Interrupted

Walks Interrupted IV

Dust, Fenton Old Library.
Site sensitive work created for 'Dust' touring exhibition which was sited in empty public buildings in each of the six towns during early 2017 to support Stoke-on-Trent's City of Culture 2021 bid.

Walks Interrupted III

Dust, Tunstall Pool.
Site sensitive work created for 'Dust', a touring exhibition sited in empty public buildings in each of the six towns during early 2017 to support Stoke-on-Trent's City of Culture 2021 bid.

'New Light'

Beyond the Surface

These memory boxes layer memory and place to create ‘scapes that are simultaneously personal and public.
The images explore different personal experiences and memories of a particular area at various times, encouraging a re-examining of environment and personal relationships to space.
In ‘Beyond the Surface No.2’, I have taken the memories of people I interviewed who live in an area near my studio, and where I lived for many years, as my starting point for creating new composite images. These final images are a combination of photographs from both the original series and new work, providing not necessarily an accurate mapping of the area but a representation of personal histories.

Displacement

Gainsborough Works

Looking for Venus

No PLace Like Home

The fifties is an important decade for understanding the social history of women as the influence of the period remains in much of twenty-first century life, from mass consumerism and advertising, to the constant media examination of the role of women.
This series has been inspired by the contrasting messages from second world war posters, which encouraged women to adopt strong roles and jobs traditionally associated with men, to fifties advertising persuading women back into the feminine safety of the home, family and gleaming perfection. This was only achievable according to advertisers, of course, by purchasing the latest labour saving devices or wearing the newest fashions, but above all by putting the needs of your husband and children first. However, the reality behind this projected veneer of harmony and perfect family life was that many women missed the camaraderie and independence afforded them in the nation’s war effort.
In each of the images the kitchen utensils have been individually photographed and digitally ‘cut out’, whilst the other elements have been manipulated from fifties advertisements and magazine articles. The text has also been ‘borrowed’ from period sources and re-used to create a new context.

'Class 33'

“my enduring obsession with the simple abstract beauty of distressed surfaces in a variety of environments is a recurring theme in my work. Careful composition and ‘accidental’ colour relationships provide endless possibilities for images which still the impact of nature on human endeavour.”

Precious Metal Underground

Residual Waste

A series of images from Staffordshire General Infirmary as it was being vacated in a move to the new Stafford District General Hospital.